The best pass-catch combo ever

[EPelle]

Cunningham/Moss

[Texas]

Re: Pitch and Catch

(dynamic duos)

Sonny Jurgensen to Charley Taylor

Otto Graham to Dante Lavelli

John Brodie to Gene Washington

Jim Zorn to Steve Largent

Peyton Manning to Marvin Harrison

Lenny Dawson to Otis Taylor

Well hell...

Sonny Jurgensen to Bobby Mitchell

Joe Theisman to Art Monk

Ron Jaworski to Harold Carmichael

George Blanda to Charley Hennighan

Troy Aikman to Michael Irvin

Daryl Lamonica to Warren Wells

[bijanc]

Pitch and Catch

(dynamic duos)

Sonny Jurgensen to Charley Taylor

Otto Graham to Dante Lavelli

John Brodie to Gene Washington

Jim Zorn to Steve Largent

Peyton Manning to Marvin Harrison

Lenny Dawson to Otis Taylor

[Texas]

Then there's...

Cecil Isbell to Don Hutson
Otto Grahajm to Mac Speedie
John Hadl to Lance Alworth
Joe Namath to Don Maynard
Terry Bradshaw to Swann & Stallworth
Jim Kelly to Andre Reed
Kenny Stabler to Bilitnikoff & Branch
Dan Fouts to Winslow, Joiner & Jefferson
Charley Johnson to Sonny Randle & Bobby Joe Corad

Hmmm?

[gh]

Longevity/style of play have something to do with it, of course, but is interesting that Young threw more TD passes to Rice than Montana did.

[Dietmar239]

You took the words out of my mouth. You can't be better than Montana/Rice.

[tandfman]

Better than Montana-Rice?

[lonewolf]

That about sums it up.

[gh]

this from Bruce Jenkins in the SF Chron this morning:

<<..If you get a chance tonight to watch ESPN's treatment of the 1958 Colts-Giants game, study the great Baltimore receiver Ray Berry. He turned the position into fine art, running precise patterns, establishing a genius-level rapport with his quarterback (Johnny Unitas), and simply never dropping the ball. He wasn't particularly big or fast, but he could not be stopped ...>>

I've often wondered if it's just because this was a duo from the early days of my watching pro football (and it's hard not to be biased by what first impressed you), but I've long thought I never saw a better pair than these two in the telepathy department.

Seemed like Berry would run one of his precise routes, with multiple angle changes, never once looking backwards, and then, once in the end zone he'd turn around just as the ball arrived at his chest.